Bad News Bears Critic Reviews

New-era losers (the cast is a cheery scrum of relaxed kids, led by genuine whiz pitcher Sammi Kane Kraft in the role created by Tatum O'Neal) now include a rotten kid in a wheelchair.Read the full review

The new Bad News Bears has adopted a somewhat raunchier tone but delivers enough laughs to go the distance.Read the full review

Does nothing to justify its own existence other than be consistently funny from start to finish.Read the full review

A straightforward, surprisingly faithful and definitely loving adaptation of the original.Read the full review

Filled with small, cute kids and large, goofy laughs and buoyed by fine supporting work from Greg Kinnear and Marcia Gay Harden, the director's latest effort won't rock your movie world, but the fact that he manages to keep the freak flag flying in the face of our culture of triumphalism is a thing of beauty.Read the full review

Matthau was merely worthless, while Thornton, God bless his soul, rises to the actual level of sociopathic. I love it when that happens.Read the full review

Wholly unnecessary but highly enjoyable.Read the full review

The movie is like a merger of his ugly drunk in "Bad Santa" and his football coach in "Friday Night Lights," yet Thornton doesn't recycle from either movie; he modulates the manic anger of the Santa and the intensity of the coach and produces a morose loser who we like better than he likes himself.Read the full review

The mischief Thornton does make adds up to wild, rowdy fun.Read the full review